Changing coolant to G-05
01-31-2019, 04:55 PM
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For those playing along at home, I'm a recovering early Lotus addict. I'm not ashamed of it anymore. It's part of my auto history, nestled among Porsche and F-car (and others...) addiction periods. The 928 has by far the greatest performance/$ ratio of all but one or two in that history. At some point soon the remaining hoarded cars and spares collection will be offloaded to someone who is currently addicted. The last one I sold (for 928 garage space) lasted less than six months before the new owner backed it into a guardrail. I need to be more particular about who buys them I guess.
The 928 is going nowhere...
01-31-2019, 11:26 PM
#32
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We are really straying from the original theme...
There's not much chance of a "decent Esprit" until you get to last-gen cars, and the decent coddled examples are not inexpensive to buy and definitely not inexpensive to own. I recommend that you spend a little time with one before plunking down any money. They are interesting cars to be seen in.
I have little knowledge of the British Daimler cars. My memory is that the hemi engine design was licensed along with the name, but beyond that there's no commonality with the German cars that share the name. In high school (mid 1960's) a friend's dad had one, and he loved it for some reason. I had a '65 356SC cab at the time, and found a series 1 Europa roller about 1970 as a project. Then a pair of NIB 23's that I still have NIB, a couple more Europa's that I don't, an Elan +2S that I'd like to have back, a few other less interesting Lotii, a Mangusta, a 246GTS Dino, a few 911's mixed in, then some Saabs... Plus some real cars needed to get to church, school, the ski areas, and work. And the scooters...
Theme: All except the early Porsche's used some flavor of liquid coolant.
There's not much chance of a "decent Esprit" until you get to last-gen cars, and the decent coddled examples are not inexpensive to buy and definitely not inexpensive to own. I recommend that you spend a little time with one before plunking down any money. They are interesting cars to be seen in.
I have little knowledge of the British Daimler cars. My memory is that the hemi engine design was licensed along with the name, but beyond that there's no commonality with the German cars that share the name. In high school (mid 1960's) a friend's dad had one, and he loved it for some reason. I had a '65 356SC cab at the time, and found a series 1 Europa roller about 1970 as a project. Then a pair of NIB 23's that I still have NIB, a couple more Europa's that I don't, an Elan +2S that I'd like to have back, a few other less interesting Lotii, a Mangusta, a 246GTS Dino, a few 911's mixed in, then some Saabs... Plus some real cars needed to get to church, school, the ski areas, and work. And the scooters...
Theme: All except the early Porsche's used some flavor of liquid coolant.
